pluperfect tense

pluperfect tense

English

Etymology

From Latin plus (“more”) +‎ perfectus (“perfect”).

Noun

pluperfect tense (plural pluperfect tenses)

1. (grammar, of a verb) Tense of a verb used when referring to something that happened before a past setting or the imperfect; formed in English by adding had before the past participle of a verb, or by adding had been before the present participle of the verb.

Synonyms

• past perfect progressive, past perfect, past perfect tense

Translations

tense

Bulgarian: ми́нало предвари́телно вре́ме n (mínalo predvarítelno vréme), плусквамперфе́кт m (pluskvamperfékt) Catalan: plusquamperfet (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 過去完成時／过去完成时 (guòqù wánchéngshí, guòqù wánchéng shí) Czech: plusquamperfektum n Dutch: voltooid verleden tijd (nl) m, plusquamperfectum (nl) n Esperanto: pluskvamperfekto (eo) Faroese: táliðin tíð f Finnish: pluskvamperfekti (fi) French: plus-que-parfait (fr) m German: Plusquamperfekt (de) n; Vorvergangenheit (de) f, vollendete Vergangenheit f Greek: υπερσυντέλικος (el) m (ypersyntélikos) Ancient: ὑπερσυντέλικος m (hupersuntélikos) Hungarian: régmúlt (hu) Ido: plusquamperfekto (io) Italian: trapassato prossimo (it) m Japanese: 大過去 (ja) (だいかこ, daikako) Korean: 과거완료 (ko) (gwageowallyo) Latin: plusquamperfectum n Macedonian: плусквамперфект m (pluskvamperfekt) Norwegian: pluskvamperfektum m Persian: ماضی بعید‎ (mâzi-e ba'id) Polish: czas zaprzeszły (pl) m Portuguese: pretérito mais-que-perfeito (pt), mais-que-perfeito (pt) m Romanian: mai mult ca perfect n Russian: давнопроше́дшее вре́мя (ru) n (davnoprošédšeje vrémja), предпроше́дшее вре́мя n (predprošédšeje vrémja), плюсквамперфе́кт (ru) m (pljuskvamperfékt) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: плусквампѐрфект m, плусквампѐрфекат m, давно прошло време n Roman: pluskvampèrfekt (sh) m Spanish: pluscuamperfecto m Swedish: pluskvamperfekt (sv) n, pluskvamperfektum (sv) n Ukrainian: давномину́лий час m (davnomynúlyj čas), плюсквамперфе́кт m (pljuskvamperfékt)

See also

• Wikipedia article on Pluperfect tenses